My Moon Portal
A Lunar Companion for the Wise Soul
Taurus New Moon
Celebrating Spring
Qualities: Fixed, Yin, Earth
Planet: Venus
House: Second House of Personal Resources and Values
Day of the Week: Friday
Motto: I Have
Body Parts: Neck
Taurus represents a grounding of personal power in the material world. The instinct to survive (Aries) is still primary, but now the soul is less impulsive and more strategic. Foresight begins to emerge. Not only does the soul want to survive the moment, but it also wants to persevere through time. For some, this means securing enough money and possessions. For others, it’s more about using their creativity and resourcefulness to take advantage of what is readily available to them. Their natural earthiness endows them with an understanding of natural cycles making them excellent gardeners and cooks. They also see the potential beauty in their environment, so they can make excellent interior designers, artists, or stylists. Since they are skilled at using natural resources to their full advantage, they can have many raw talents such as singing, body building, or any other activity that involves using their natural genetic gifts. Once they have invested time and energy into creating a comfortable nest for themselves, they do not want it to disturbed. They are resistant to change and can suffer extreme stress if forced to deal with any kind of material or financial uncertainty.
Taurus New Moon Intentions: Celebrating Spring
If Aries (preceding sign) is the pioneering spirit, then Taurus is the divine stabilizer. Warrior energy is exhausting and unsustainable over the long term. But how do we hang on to our new conquests? Taurus steps in to crystalize the cosmic spark, ambitions, and achievements of Aries into physical form. This archetype has a knack for resourcefulness. It stops in its tracks, looks around its environment for useful items, and sets up shop. Taurus wants us to choose these items wisely. What are our values and priorities? How well do our possessions reflect these values and priorities? Are spending habits in line with our financial truth? If not, why? Taurus asks these questions to ensure that we are on solid footing and avoid building a house of cards.
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Growing plants
Cooking food
Singing
Starting a collection
Appreciating/protecting the Earth
Caring for the environment
Clarifying personal values/priorities
Determining financial needs
Setting financial goals
Establishing a sustainable budget
Elevating self-worth
Cultivating peace, ease, and space
Quotes by a Taurus Moon
Bob Dylan
The land created me. I'm wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I'm more at home in the vacant lots.
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I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.
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I really didn't consider myself happy or unhappy.
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Some formulas are too complex and I don't want anything to do with them.
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When you've got nothing, you've got nothing to lose.
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You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.
Quotes by a Taurus Moon
Eckhart Tolle
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.
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Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the NOW the primary focus of your life.
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Accept - then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it.
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You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.
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All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.
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Since time immemorial, flowers, crystals, precious stones, and birds have held special significance for the human spirit.
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You are not separate from nature. We are all part of the One Life that manifests itself in countless forms throughout the universe, forms that are all completely interconnected.
Quotes by a Taurus Moon
Mother Teresa
Yes, you must live life beautifully and not allow the spirit of the world that makes gods out of power, riches, and pleasure make you to forget that you have been created for greater things.
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Poverty was not created by God. It is we who have caused it, you and I through our egotism.
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Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
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The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
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Love is a fruit in season at all times and within reach of every hand.
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Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.
Taurus in the Tarot
Ditch dirt was probably best
—extra minerals from the green algae slime
Now two cups of the finest sand from the overgrown sandbox
The Folgers can was heavy, but the recipe continued:
One half cup dandelion fluff, a tablespoon minced sword fern,
a tablespoon of sawdust, and three drops of morning dew
My mother brought out a real cakepan into which I poured the batter
She asked for a decoration, and I selected a small pinecone and a purple flower
Wary eyes followed her back to the house
Two hours later, she presented a warm pineapple upside-down cake
a pinecone and a purple flower on top
I had made magic, and together we ate it with ice cream
—no questions asked
I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.
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I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.
- Frida Kahlo